BENEFITS OF YOGA

A dedicated yoga practice that includes breathing techniques, behavioural guidelines and physical postures can be of incredible value to kids. What's more, we can introduce children to yoga from the age of four onwards, giving them a firm foundation of physical and spiritual resilience.

A few months ago, I walked into a yoga studio near my home and signed up for an evening class. I knew all about yoga, I presumed. After all, yoga is everywhere in our country. It is an integral part of our cultural heritage. We have yoga gurus, yoga celebrities and even a yoga-loving Prime Minister. But I was quite surprised to find that the yoga class was not what I expected...

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has taken a decision to include short term yoga programmes in Tourist Visa and e-Tourist Visa. Realizing the spread and importance of yoga world over, the government...

Altogether 250 Indian and Ru ian military troops are practicing yoga and other tactical drills during the ongoing bilateral military exercise 'Indra-2015' at Rajasthan's Mahajan firing range in Bikane...

Whenever I see some complex yoga posture, I often wonder how he/she managed to do it. Does the person not have bones? Or do we overplay our limitations and undermine our own abilities? The practice of yoga has only reaffirmed to me that the only thing that stops us from becoming great is our own self. Yoga represents challenges that we learn to master.

Yoga can not only help improve your physical and mental well being, it can also help you turn into a master in bed. There are a number of poses that can help improve blood circulation and strengthen m...

Sri Sri says, "If you look at a child, there is unconditional love in his eyes. Every baby has this quality, but minus the wisdom. As you grow older, keep the quality of innocence in you and nurture the depth of wisdom along with it." This is what our education system must strive to do and it can be achieved through yoga and meditation.

I am a practicing Muslim who teaches the Surya Namaskar as a means of physical and mental well-being and advocate the practice for deeper self-reflection and focus in religious meditative practices as well!

Most people associate yoga with physical contortions, but what the word really refers to is when the "small self merges with the universal self" or in other words, "when individual consciousness merges with the universal consciousness"... So, what has yoga got to do with richness and wealth? If you look at it closely, money is actually a form of energy.

For those chained to their desks for nine hours every day, diet is a major problem. Indigestion, leading to an uncomfortable bloated feeling, and acid reflux are pretty common and unfortunate side eff...

If yoga comes into the life of every common people, it will help in bringing down incidents of rape in the country, veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said on Sunday. In a remark that may spark a...

I have traveled to India over 30 times in my lifetime. My mother has visited India over 45 times! Neither of us have any blood relatives here. We are pulled by the mystical lure, scents, smiling faces, and complex cultural forms of relating that would make any psychiatrist squelch.

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